Not alone anymore: chapter 5
Shadow's POV
The next morning i woke up to find myself still clutching sonic's photograph against my chest. I sat up and looked at it. "good morning, sonic." I said and smiled very lightly at it. The photograph was taken when he was 25 years old. At the top of his youth, like poeple would say. I put the photograph back in the nightstand and got up from my bed. I walked into the bathroom to take a shower.
After my shower i had went downstairs to eat some breakfast. I hoped this day was going to be more normal then yesterday was. That occurance had freaked me out alot.
Sonic's POV
I was sitting at the table eating my breakfast silently. But that peacefull silence was broken by knuckles' and rouge's bickering. They tended to do that in order to tease eachother a bit. But i became annoyed by it everytime it was in morning. I was half asleep so i had a bit of an ill-temper in the morning.
After breakfast i was doing my daily morning walk. I did those walks in order to get awake properly. And i also did those walks to get some thoughts straight in my head. I was walking aimlessely around in the city. I just couldn't stop thinking about him. I had a dream about him last night. A dream that felt more like a memory. But a memory from where and from when? In my dream i was about the same age as i am now. But i can't remember anything like that.
In my dream i heard a voice call out to me in fear. The voice was soft as if he was whispering. My surroundings were blury as if this memory was so far away. The hedgehog's appearance was blury aswell. But i recognized the color and shape of his quills. "sonic..." He whispered in fear and walked towards me. His arms wrapped tightly against his waist as if he had experienced something shocking just now. "shadow." I heard my own voice say. Shadow. Is that his name? "shadow, don't worry, you're safe now." I said and saw shadow bring a small carefull smile on his muzzle. He wrapped his arms around me. I felt a very loving warmth consume me before i woke up.
When i had awoken from that dream, i had almost wished that i was dreaming again. There had to be a meaning behind this. And i was determined to find out just what. Judging by his behaviour yesterday, it seemed like he really did know us even though we had never seen him before. He must know something. If he does, then it wouldn't hurt paying him a ltitle visite. that is, if i could ever find him.
i was still walking around thinking about how i would be able to figur ethis whole thing out. Till i looked up and saw the person in question not to far inn front of me.
Shadow's POV
This has to be a joke. This has to be! What happened yesterday couldn't possible really have happened.
"hey." He said and walked towards me. I didn't dare to move. I hoped that he would just walk past me and talk to someone else. "you're shadow, right?" he said and smiled. "how do you know?" I asked in a whisper. How could he know my name? Poeple have forgotten that i ever existed after i 'dissapeared' after 70 years. So how did he know? "i had a dream about you last night. it felt like a memory. but what i mean is that i had said 'shadow' and somehow i knew that it was your name." He said and smiled. "do you work for g.u.n?" I asked. "g.u.n? why would i?" He asked in confusion. "you know, are you doing this on purpose so g.u.n would get their hands on me?" I asked. "why would they be after you?" he asked. "you really don't know? then i would like to keep it that way." I said and turned around to walk away. But he reached out and grabbed my shoulder. "please, stay a bit longer. i need to know some stuff." he said and pulled me back. "there are some things that i can't understand. so i would like you to answer some question of mine. you obviously knew us even though we've never met. you have to answer them!" He pushed on. "you really are sonic?" I whispered in shock and concern. "i can't do this." I said and ran off again. "wait!" He yelled and ran after me. I knew that he could easily follow me. I knew that i wasn't able to lose him with running. he is the fastest thing alive after all. Not to mention that i had lost a great deal of my speed aswell. I looked behind me to see him a bit behind me. He was obviously waiting till i couldn't keep up with running anymore and had to stop.
I ran some turns till i got to the graveyard. I looked behind me but didn't see him anymore, good. I ran to the oldest part of the graveyard. it had a small mausoleum. it was dedicated to the heroes from mobius. And with those heroes i obviously meant sonic and our friends. Which important person didn't get a mausoleum, after all? I broke open the lock on the gate. I often did that whenever i wanted to take care of the place. It was my way of saying thank you to them for helping me and taking care of me for all these years.
I walked inside. I felt some sort of comfort overwhelm me when i entered. i always thought it was because my lover and friends were here. I laid me hand on a cold stone on which sonic's name was engraved. behind the stone sonic's coffin was there. I sometimes came here aswell to tell them what was becoming of the world and how i had been. It made me feel closer to them.
"w-what is this?" I heard a voice said. I jumped and looked at the doorway. I saw sonic, or who i was believing to be sonic, standing there with a look of shock plastered on his face.